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arXiv:2607.16010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governments are increasingly mandating that LLM-generated content carry watermarks. The EU AI Act calls for markings that are "sufficiently reliable and robust." California's SB 942 requires disclosure that is "permanent or extraordinarily difficult to remove." Both mandates rest on an untested assumption: that watermark detection yields evidence reliable enough for courts. This paper tests that assumption directly. We evaluate three representati

The United States Trade Representative (Trade Representative) has determined under Section 301(b) and Section 304(a) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (Trade Act), that certain of Brazil's acts, policies, and practices at issue in this investigation are actionable and that action by the United States is appropriate. In accordance with the specific direction of the President, the Trade Representative is taking action by imposing 25 percent tariffs on all imports of Brazil, with certain exempti

An Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grant Funding Ryan Quinn Sun, 07/19/2026 - 02:30 PM The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sent researchers letters last week saying they wouldn’t receive long-awaited funding continuations. The agency cited the “best interest of the federal government.” Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

The White House has repeatedly condemned EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

When Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City, he vowed to gather community feedback on how the public schools are working. His chancellor, Kamar Samuels, has assembled working groups “tasked with creating customized proposals to accelerate the work of building a stronger school system, rooted in academically rigorous, safe and integrated schools.” So I […]

U.S. Central Command said the strikes were designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to restrict the traffic of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

This year's honorees were announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday night.

Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America’s golf courses. The comparison is technically correct today. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […] This story continues at The Next Web

Physicists have longed for a theory of everything, a single framework that would explain every force in the universe. After the better part of a century, they’re still looking. But social science, improbably, may have beaten them to it. In 2021, three British writers — John Myers, Sam Bowman, and Ben Southwood — published an […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Episode 4 of “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America,” now streaming on HBO Max. Larry David weaponizes history to mock his former pal Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his HBO sketch comedy show “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.” In the […]

The DOJ Gabs About Its Biglaw Subpoenas: I don't think it'll work out the way they planned it in their head. House Oversight Caught With Their Pants Down : Alan "Underpants" Dershowitz cancels Monday Epstein interview at the last minute. Holding The Powerful... Not Accountable At All : Amid mounting court findings of DOJ misrepresentations, a federal court in Michigan calls out the government for an AI hallucination designed to keep a man locked up. No sanctions. Trump's Called In An FBI Forensi

An Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grant Funding Ryan Quinn Fri, 07/17/2026 - 06:15 PM The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sent researchers letters this week saying they wouldn’t receive long-awaited funding continuations. The agency cited the “best interest of the federal government.” Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

Netflix paid $587 million in cash when it purchased Ben Affleck’s AI startup InterPositive, the company disclosed in a federal filing. As part of the company’s Form 10-Q report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Netflix confirmed that it completed an acquisition in March “for a total purchase price of approximately $587 million. The disclosure […]

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

Bills this week aim to regulate how children interact with and learn about AI, give America’s farmers more AI equipment and add AI regulation to Medicare claim denials.

On July 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the official most closely identified with Ukraine’s much-lauded effort to turn drones, software, and commercial technology into military advantage. The move could have implications not just for Kyiv, but also for Washington. Ukraine has become the clearest test of how a smaller force can use inexpensive systems and rapid development to counter a larger conventional army. Those are meaningful lessons

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and […] This story continues at The Next Web

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is again joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education as it continues trying to end federal grants for school-based mental health services. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Tong joined a lawsuit about these same grants one year ago. That’s when the Department of Education initially discontinued the […]

Brazil may soon become the first country in the Americas to regulate digital platforms before they do anything wrong. Bill 4,675/2025 would let the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) designate large technology companies as having “systemic relevance” and impose special obligations without first proving anticompetitive conduct or consumer harm. That is a substantial change ... Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, Not a Rethink The post Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, No

President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi , the White House said Thursday. The firm’s enforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators about bets allegedly made about what the president would say in public addresses. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president is aware of the situation, which she described as “unf

Governments are increasingly mandating that LLM-generated content carry watermarks. The EU AI Act calls for markings that are "sufficiently reliable and robust." California's SB 942 requires disclosure that is "permanent or extraordinarily difficult to remove." Both mandates rest on an untested assumption: that watermark detection yields evidence reliable enough for courts. This paper tests that assumption directly. We evaluate three representative LLM watermarking methods -- KGW, Unigram, and t

California’s latest budget includes $116 million over three years to help schools identify and support students experiencing homelessness — the first time the state has dedicated funding specifically for this purpose. Homeless student advocates welcomed the investment after years of lobbying lawmakers to supplement the federal dollars California gets annually to address student homelessness. However, […]

From the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept The post Writers Guild Of America Also Sues Paramount, Citing Looming Merger Layoff Bloodbath appeared first on Above the Law .

Fairlife’s U.S. operation includes plants in Michigan, New York and Arizona, and the company's retail sales passed $1 billion in 2022.

* Last night, Trump delivered a speech ostensibly about election security, but it was mostly a commercial for the 25th Amendment. [ Election Law Blog ] * Madison Square Garden sues WIRED over article claiming the stadium "used surveillance to track celebrities’ race, gender identity, and sexual orientation." Can you believe a despicable owner who already admits to routinely using face recognition to ban lawyers from events could do such a thing? [ USA Today ] * Trump selling financial firms earl

The UN Secretary-General remains deeply concerned by the continuing deadly military escalation between Iran and the United States, his spokesperson said on Friday as attacks destroyed key civilian and ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the dual nature of artificial intelligence’s opportunities and challenges, calling for a principle of “openness” and regulations to keep the technology “secure and controllable” in a speech at the country’s flagship annual AI conference. Xi’s first speech to the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai showed AI is a national strategic priority as China seeks to build greater technological self-reliance amid its tech rivalry with the United States. Earlier...

Before the twentieth century gave armies antibiotics, the leading killer of American soldiers in wartime was neither enemy fire nor shrapnel. Two-thirds of the roughly 620,000 deaths in the U.S. Civil War came from diseases like typhoid and dysentery. Spread through contaminated water and crowded camps, they were eventually controlled through inoculation and field sanitation rather than the antibiotics that would not arrive until the following generation. Later in World War I, American forces lo

SHANGHAI (AP) — Development and governance of artificial intelligence should be a global effort, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday, while reiterating China’s objections to what he called the “overstretching” of national security concerns. Speaking at a conference in Shanghai, Xi said AI should not be dominated by any single nation. American-led restrictions have blocked...

Iowa Schools Acknowledge Federal Limits on CTE Courses for Undocumented Students Sara Weissman Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM Iowa school districts and community colleges had to acknowledge to the state that the federal government opposes undocumented students participating in many college-level career and technical education programs. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

arXiv:2607.15051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Canadian organizations deploying artificial intelligence systems face a fragmented regulatory landscape spanning federal requirements (the Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making) and divergent provincial regulations across Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia. The death of Bill C-27 (Artificial Intelligence and Data Act) in January 2025 - and the federal government's June 2026 confirmation that it will pursue targ

arXiv:2607.15134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how a representative sample of United States adult AI-assistant users (n=1,999; June 2026) choose among platforms, allocate tasks across them, evaluate provider trustworthiness, and value data-handling features. Estimates are weighted to the AI-user population using external adoption benchmarks. Four patterns emerge. The market is concentrated but internally differentiated: ChatGPT is the primary assistant for 58% of users and Gemini for 2

China will use its largest annual artificial intelligence gathering this week to showcase an ambition that extends beyond catching up with the United States in foundation models to building dominance in autonomous agents, scientific research, humanoid robots and consumer devices. The World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai comes amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the US, whose restrictions continue to constrain China’s access to advanced computing chips. Beijing has responded by making.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to change the admission period in the F, J, and I classifications from duration of status to an admission for a fixed time period, and additional changes to admission and extension requirements. This final rule will provide additional protections and oversight of these nonimmigrant categories and will allow DHS to better evaluate whether these nonimmigrants are maintaining status while temporarily in the United States. This fi

The president urged New York to reverse its ban, calling data centers ‘liquid gold’ in a July 15 Truth Social post.

A blood test now helps doctors decide, in about 15 minutes, whether a patient with a suspected brain injury needs a CT scan. It took about 20 years to get there. That gap between scientific promise and clinical use tells us more about American innovation policy than most congressional hearings ever will. At one such ... A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting The post A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting appeared first on Truth on the Market .

A bill to provide $10,000 bonuses to New York City’s full-time paraprofessionals is headed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s desk after it was approved by City Council members Thursday. Similar legislation introduced last year was backed by the United Federation of Teachers in an effort to address the city’s paraprofessional shortage. After the bill failed to […]

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says the Trump administration should pressure Canada not to enact a proposal that would "weaponize American technology infrastructure" for surveillance purposes.

The number of people who got approval to be in the Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce program was in the single digits, GAO found. The post Program to rotate cyber personnel through federal agencies saw little use appeared first on CyberScoop .